WEAR ROUND

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Turn into the wind

Example:

The boat tacked

Synonyms:

tack; wear round

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "wear round" is one way to...):

sail (travel on water propelled by wind)

Domain category:

navigation; pilotage; piloting (the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place)

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something